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When Facebook took a $240 million investment from Microsoft last month at a $15 billion valuation, they became, in theory, one of the most valuable Internet-only companies on the planet.But that valuation was tenuous at best. Microsoft and Facebook expanded their year-old advertising relationship as part of the deal. And Facebook was unable to get [...]

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With Facebook making changes to its Beacon program, users will see a new set of options every time they interact with a “Beacon Affiliate”. This is what you’ll see:NotificationFacebook users will see a notification in the lower right corner of the screen after transacting with a Beacon Affiliate. Options include “No Thanks” that will immediately [...]

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It looks like Facebook has listened to the outcry from users and privacy groups about Beacon. Nick O’Neill has received word from the company that they will be making updates that will make user’s much more aware of information that could be published to their feeds based on actions they take on third-party sites.Here’s [...]

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Google has announced that Blogger beta (or Blogger in Draft, as they call it) now supports OpenID commenting. Until now, you could comment on Blogger blogs as an anonymous user or with your Blogger identity; now you can also comment using your OpenID identity. Let’s add that to our list of 14 useful things you [...]

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New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most popular networks, including EFnet, DALnet, Freenode and QuakeNetUndernet, are all being monitored - IRSeeK is now “listening” to 2000+ channels across [...]

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Hungry eyes

HP might have bought a bunch of software firms in the last year, but it’s got no intention of stopping.…

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It’s hard to throw a rock now without hitting a WordPress powered blog. For those of you running your own installs of the popular platform, there is a world of plugins and themes out there for you to use. Enjoy some of our news and toolboxes covering this mega-popular blogging platform.Share ThisCan’t [...]
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Politics are a touchy subject. American politics, doubly so.Wednesday night, CNN and YouTube played host to a Republican debate that, as it turns out, has stirred up a bit of controversy. It would appear that either CNN has the worst screening process known to man, or that there is indeed a liberal bias in the [...]

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Google’s “Blogger in Draft” program that tests functionality for Google’s popular Blogger blogging platform has rolled out OpenID support for comments.The new service will allow anyone with an OpenID account, including LiveJournal and TypeKey services to log in and validate a comment on blogs running under the Blogger in Draft service. Google notes that the [...]

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